We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, John C. Reilly, Jasper Newell
Certificate: 15
Genre: Drama
Awards: None

Kevin (Miller) is the creator of a high school massacre. Now with him in prison,  his mother, Eva (Swinton), remembers his strange and childhood while also being targeted by the neighbourhood. The film is mostly shown in flashbacks from Kevin's birth to the crime and it is left for the audience whether or not his upbringing or something else was the cause of Kevin's strange nature.

We Need To Talk About Kevin is a genuinely upsetting film with a depressing and horrifying atmosphere throughout. Both Miller and Swinton bring in great performances and even though we know what happens in the finale there are still extra shocks added. The problem I do have with the film is how the families of the dead react as I don't believe that would happen under theses circumstances but then again I'm not an expert on human nature.

*****Brilliant